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Originally posted by Rondol:
<STRONG>Any bets on how long before someone tries to buy the rights to make it into a big-name commercial game?</STRONG>

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Such an action would likely cause the instant death of the game on practically every single level of gameplay, however. Any attempt to move dwarf fortress from it's current path or cycle of growth would be like shaking a newborn baby, or punching the womb of a pregnant woman.

YOU SIMPLY DO NOT F!NG DO IT!
For the welfare of the child, you let it develop naturally, without interferance from it's original life cycle. When it's mature, fine, do whatever you want... But when you start to 'shake things up' in the development cycle, you're going to get one seriously mentally /physically retarded product. *COUGH* STALKER *COUGH*

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Originally posted by SnowWhite:
Please post your funniest DF joke.

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ELEFANTS IN YUO FORT, KILLIN' YA DORFS!!1!

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Originally posted by Mud:
<STRONG>"323 regions rejected."</STRONG>

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"876 regions rejected"  

- Seiges, Artifacts: Suggested to be off
- Weather, Economy: Your choice
- Cave-ins, temperature: Suggested to be on

- Suitably 'harsh' map:
. At least 20-50 world tiles from any other settlement
. "Hot" and above or "Cold" and below, NO temperate areas
. One perminate water supply /area feature suggested, NOT adamantium
. Any creature difficulty setting; Calm, Serene, and Terrifying are all valid
. Access to other civs is nice, but not necessary

- Original 7 dwarves must:
. Have a "Prison Administrator" that perminately remains off-duty
. Have at least one no-title military weaponry skill, except for prison admins
. Have 1/3 their number (2) be active in the military at any one time
. Be played with the [SPEED:1] hack until the first migrant wave arrives
. Build a prison complex capable of holding the first migrant wave
. Cease building the lower prison complex once the prisoners can do it themselves

- The prison complex must:
. Be able to house every immigrant in their own prison cell
. Be able to produce enough food for the prisoners
. Be able to make all prisoners work to produce stone and metal crafts
. Be able to produce whatever the trade liason requests
. Use it's prisoners to build more prison space, once they arrive
. Treat the gaurds that tantrum and the criminals that tantrum, differently

- Trade only only for food, animals, drink, ropes/chains, and cages
- All other crafted goods must be offered to the caravan

- Subsequent immigrant waves will immediately:
. Be activated for military service and moved into the prison complex
.. Unless the dwarf is military, which will become a part of the perminate gaurd
.. Unless the dwarf is a peasant, which will act as a 'low level' criminal
. Be treated as a 'medium level' criminal and moved to their cell.

- Immigrant waves with military in them must have a "high level" criminal chosen out of the other skilled dwarves in the wave. If it's just military dwarves, then think of it as an additional gaurd compliment.

- 'Low Level' Criminals are allowed to be where the original 7 dwarves are, but:
. Must never have any skills
. Must never have a room larger then 1 tile
. Must share their punishment with whomever they're married
. On the first criminal offense, be sent to 'medium level' cells for the duration of their punishment
.. Unless the offense wounded/killed a gaurd, at which point they are moved to 'high level' cells for the duration of their punishment, and then perminately moved to 'medium level' cells afterwards, never to return to 'low level' life.

- 'Medium Level' Criminals are placed in "Medium Level" cells, which:
. Are 3x3 rooms constructed entirely from grey-scale stone blocks
. Has a metal door and vertical bars, seperated by a wall
. Has a rope in the middle
. Has a bed near the bars, table w/chair, food stockpile, and functional well
. Has no ceiling at all

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D.WT# Door, Well, Table
#.Rc# Restraint rope, chair
VB.F# Vertical bars, Bed, Food stockpile
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- 'High Level' Criminals are placed in "High Level" cells, which:
. Are 1x3 +1 T-shape rooms constructed entirely from metal blocks
. Has a metal door and vertical bars, seperated by a wall along the 3-tile face
. Has a chain in the middle of the T shape
. Has a bed near the bars, a food stockpile near the door, and a pool of 7/7 water opposite the wall past the chain
. Has a grate for a roof, except for the area over the food stockpile
. Must be seperated from the 'Medium Level' cells

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DF## Door, Food stockpile
#Rp# Restraint chain, 7/7 pool of water*
VB## Vertical bars, Bed
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* (pool is also 100% constructed metal blocks)

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